From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b50bc6538a649497 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Ada student homework ? Date: 2000/11/08 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 691170917 References: <3A02CED4.520C2768@brighton.ac.uk> <3A078B6F.D34B024B@erols.com> <8ua3m1$bru$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A0916BB.584C6C60@cadwin.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 973685817 216.44.122.34 (Wed, 08 Nov 2000 12:16:57 GMT) Organization: LJK Software NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 12:16:57 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <3A0916BB.584C6C60@cadwin.com>, Nicolas Brunot writes: >> > > Does everybody here making a student homework hunting ? > There is often despising and rude posts towards supposingly 'students > homework' > > I don't think most people take really the time to check if it is really > a homework or not before answering like that (commenting is more > appropriate than answering) > Experienced programmers starting Ada are likely to ask homework like > questions (not so bad after all to learn Ada) > Have this kind of people, giving lessons to everybody, tried a language > they absolutely don't know, and how would they take this kind of > reaction ? > > Even if this is a homework, are you their teachers ? No, I am their victim if they learn Ada poorly. When I see a "homework" question, the issue of whether they are in a degree-granting program or not is rather minor. I don't want to end up maintaining code written by somebody who did not try to understand the underlying principles of the language. But I _really_ don't want to ride on an airplane they programmed.